| identification and partial characterisation of a new lagovirus in australian wild rabbits. | rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus (rhdv) is widely used in australia to control feral rabbit populations. before rhdv was released on the australian continent in 1996, antibodies cross-reacting in rhdv specific elisas were found in australian wild rabbits, leading to the hypothesis that a non-pathogenic calicivirus had been circulating in rabbit populations in australia, potentially providing some level of cross-immunoprotection to rhdv infection. for the detection of this putative virus, a univ ... | 2009 | 19049842 |